CELESTINA

¶ Say what thou Wilt son spare not me ¶ Sempronio can I life with these bonys That thy master gyffyth me here for to eat words are but wind therefore atonce Bid him close his mouth and to his purs get For money maketh merchant that must Jet I have heard his words but where be his deeds For w to out money w to me no thing spedys ¶ It pleasyth me parmeno that we to gedyr May speak whereby thou mayest see I love the yet undeserved now thou continued ̄ mist hydyr whereof I care not but virtue warnyth me To fle temptation & follow charity To do good agains ill & so I rede the Sempronio & I will help thy necessity ¶ And in token now that it shall so be I pray the among us let us have a ong For where armony is there is amity Shall I Begin / ¶ A hotesona a shame take such a knau How darest thou with me thou boy be so why who art / ¶ But thy oder was as old a hoar as I Loom hydyr thou little foal let me see the A it is even he by our blyssyd lady what little vrchyn hast forgotyn me when ̄ thou layst at my bed feet how merry were we A shameful whoreson fie upon thefy fie Loom hither and now shortly I charge the That all this foolish speaking thou let be Leave wantonness of youth than shalt thou do well Follow the doctrine of thy Elders and counsel ¶ To who ̄ thy pare ̄ to on whose souls God have In pain of cursing bade the be obedient In pain whereof I command the straitly To much I mastership put not thine intent No trust is in Them if thine owen be spent Masters now adais coveyt to bring about All for Them self & let their servants go without ¶ Thy mai er men Say and as I think he be But light karych not who come to his service Fair word shall not lak but inal reward trust me Make sempronio thy frynd in any wise For he can handle him in the best gise Keep this & for thy profet tell it to none But look that sempronio and thou be one ¶ roth and honest e riches of the name But surete of wealth is to have riches And after that for to get him good fa e By report of fryndꝭ this is truth doubtless Than no such manner frynd can I exp ̄ sse As sempronyo for both your ꝑfettꝭ to speed which lies in my handꝭ now if you be agreed ¶ Oh ꝑmeno what a life may we endure Sempronyo louyth the daughter of elyso Like a child w to out wisdom thou answerest me ¶ without continued ̄ pany mirth can have non estate use no sloth nature abhorryth idleness which lesyth delight to nature appropryate In sensnall causys delight is chief masters Specially recounting louys bysynes To say thus does she the time thus they pass And soch manner they use and thus they kys & base ¶ And thus they meet & enbrase to together what speech what graze what pleys is between Them where is she there she goes let us see whither Now pleased now froward now mume now hem Strike up mynstryl w to sawꝭ of love the old proble ̄ Sing sweet songꝭ now Justꝭ & tourney Of new inventions what conseytꝭ find they ¶ Now she goes to mass to morrow she continued ̄ myth out Behold her better yonder goes a cokold I left her alone / she cometh / turn about oh thus permeno thou mayest behold Fryndꝭ will talk to gether as I have told where before perseyue thou that I Say truly Never can be delight w to out continued ̄ pany Sir I promise you I shall bring it about All thing to purpose even as you would For your reward I will do as I should Be merry fere nothing continued ̄ tent you shall be Then mother fare well be diligent I pray the ¶ Full well & graciously the case you consider For I never believed that God in vain would gyff you such countenaunnce & beauty to gedyr But charity therewith to relieve folk in pain And as God hath gyffyn you so gyff him again For folkꝭ be not made for them self only For then they should life like bestꝭ all rudely ¶ Among which bestꝭ yet some be pyteful The unicorn humblyth high self to a maid And a dog in all his power ireful Let a man fallen to ground his anger is delayed Thus by nature pity is conveyed The kok when he skrapith & happith meet to find Lallith for his hen lo see the gentle kind ¶ Should human creaturys than be of cruelness Should not they to their neybours show charity And specially to them wrapped in sickness Than they that may he'll Them cause y infirmyte ¶ Fair Dam ̄ fell thou mayest well have knowledge herto That in this Light is a young knight And of clear lineage called Calisto whose life & body is all in the I plight The pellycan to show naturys right Fedyth his byrdys me thynkith I should not changed the Thou wotist what I mean lo nature should tech the The fere of the maketh me so dismayed That the blood of my body is almost cold Alas fair maydyn what hast thou said To me poor widow why am I denied Here my continued ̄ clusion which is of honest w to out cause you blame this gentleman & me ¶ The more strange she maketh the gladder am I There is no tempast that ever does endure Fair maiden yet one word now I you pray Appease w e pacyens & here my saying It Is for a prayer mestres my demanding That is said you have of Saint appolyne For the tooth ache where of this man is in pine ¶ And the girdle there thou weryst about the ¶ So many holy relyke it hath touched That this knight thinketh his boat thou mayest be Therefore let thy pity now be a vouched For my heart for fere like a dog is couthed The delight of vengen S who so does use Pity at their need shall they refuse ¶ if this betrew that thou S yst to me Mine heart is lyghtnyd eyuyng thecase I would be content well I wist how To bring this seek knight unto some Fair damsel to the be hesth & grace For if this knight & you were aquap tied both two you would not judge him the man that you do ¶ By God & by my soul in him is no malyncoly with grace endued in freedom's as alexander In strength as Hector in countenance merry Gracious / envy ju him reined never Of noble blood as thou knowest / & if you ver Saw him armed he seemeth a Saint george Rather than to be made in nature forge ¶ And angel thou woldist judge him I make avow The gentle narciso was never so fair That was inam ̄ moryd on his own shadow wherefore fair maid let thy pity repair Let mercy be thy mother & thou her heir This knight whom I come for never seasyth But cryeth out of pain that Still encresyth I think he be. xxiiii. years of age I saw him born & help for to fold him I marvel greatly thou dost me so atwyght Of the doubt that thou hast of my secretness As secret as thy self I shall be dowteles ¶ And to calisto w to this girdle celestina Shall go and his ledy heart make hold & light For gabriell to our lady w to ave maria Came never gladder than I shall to this knight Calisto how Wilt thou now fit up right I have showed thy water to thy phesycyon Comfort thy self the felled is half wone Fair maydyn for the mercy thou hast done to us This k yght & I both thy bedfolkis shall be It shall be needful to do so / & righteous For this thus begun must needs have and end which never can be w to out you condescend ¶ Now Christ comfort y e & keep the in thy need Now say you now is not this matter carried clean Can not old celestina her matter speed A thing not well handled is not worth a be Now know you by y e alf tale what y e hold does eane These women at the First be angry & furious Fair we there cometh after storms tempestyous ¶ And now to calisto I will me dres which lies now languishing in great pain And show him that he is not remedyles And bear him this to make him glad and fain And handyll him so that you shall Say plain That I am well worthy to bear the name For to be called a no le arch dame ¶ Oh marvelous God what a dream had I to night Most terrible vysy on to report and here I had never none such nor none yerthely wight Alas when I think theron I quak for fere It was of melebe my daughter dear God send me good tythyuge of her shortly For till I here from her I can not be merry why not among I pray the no longer the time prolong lykyst her / ꝑ / peradventure I shall get her to the that shall I do so ferd I am of your displeasure your anger is so great I seyue it sure And your pacyens is in so great and hete That for woe & fere I both weep & sweet of truth fair maydyn as he says He hath be in this agony this. viii. days ¶ But he seemeth he had leyn this. vii. year